Mexico, Stereoview showing "Alameda”.

The photos are mounted on cardboard printed by the "Litografia de Iriarte y Ca.", with a space to the right to describe the images, which was done in manuscript.

Around 1837 he moved to Mexico and José Julio Michaud took up the job of wood gilding, later venturing into the image trade.

By the 1860s, he edited the "Mexican Photographic Album" together with an Album of Mexican Types made up of "twelve photographs representing the most fantastic costumes and types of the Mexican Republic." Also at this time the firm Julio Michaud and son announced the sale of stereoscopic views of Mexico. According to Gina Rodríguez, Michaud "was one of the first editors to put together a catalog of Mexican stereoscopic views." In 1863 he announced that he was willing to "go to any part of the republic to take photographic shots."